Alain de Botton Quotes

Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

I think escapism is really important.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

Movies are about escape.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

I sell escapism.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

I absolutely love reading; it is a fantastic way of unwinding.

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.